Example sentences of "[noun sg] wrought [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assume , as ministers presumably believed , that it was fiscally essential to recover the deficit wrought by the recession . |
| 2 | Yet the government can not easily undo the damage wrought by the courts . |
| 3 | This coming together at Dan Qeqe stadium was far more of a genuine gesture towards bridge building than most of the internal initiatives according to Malcolm Klaasen , the ex-SARU convenor of the Eastern Cape Veterans Association , and an outspoken critic of the lack of change wrought by the unification process . |
| 4 | That transformation comes about by the renewing of our individual minds , a change wrought from the inside , so that all that is weakest , pained and most fragmented within us becomes strengthened and renewed by the truth and love of God ( cf. |
| 5 | Adaptation as a concept was perfectly acceptable to the nineteenth-century naturalist — they had , after all , had plenty of opportunity to observe the changes that an English climate wrought on the coats and plumage , as well as the size , of live birds and animals brought from hot countries . |
| 6 | The pilot 's emotionless voice issued from a brass loudspeaker wrought in the shape of a snake 's gaping , fanged mouth . |
| 7 | The young academic coolly eyed the embattled farmer and , commenting upon the destruction wrought upon the fen , looked forward to its return to wilderness after the war , so that it could act as a buffer for the nature reserve of Wicken Fen against the farmed land : |
| 8 | The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north . |
| 9 | Moreover , the destruction wrought by the blitz turned ‘ rebuilding Britain' from a vaguely desirable objective into a necessity . |
| 10 | The death and destruction wrought by the cyclone which struck Bangladesh on 29 April was tragically compounded by the total breakdown of the country 's communication system . |
| 11 | The puddles in the hollows of the paving stones shimmered with a wash of colour as booted feet splashed through them , and officials of the court stood with long faces as they counted the extent of the destruction wrought by the rains . |
| 12 | The words blazed from lips now denuded of artificial colour , their natural flush wrought by the man — the enemy — she confronted , but she made herself be silent when they were said . |